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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
He had been made Chaplain to the King the year before ; and upon that promotion the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr . Herring , conferred upon him a doctor ' s degree . Lord Bolingbroke died in 1751 , and his philosophical woiks were published in 1753 . Dr . Warburton had very early penetrated into the views of Lord Bolingbroke ; and , observing some tincture of his principles artfully instilled into the Essay on Man , had incurred his of it
immortal hatred , by making the discovery , and in consequence , by reasoning Mr . Pope out of bis hands . Dr . Warburton attacked the arch-infidel ' s works , in a View of his Philosophy , in Four Letters to a Friend , and in writing it has surpassed himself ; the reasoning and the wit being alike irresistible , the strongest and keenest that can be conceived . Towards the end of the year 1757 , Dr . Warburton was promoted to the Deanery of Bristol ; and in the beginning of the
year 17 60 , by Mr . Allen ' s interest with the Minister , Mr . Pitt , J : e was advanced to the bishoprick of Gloucester . Mr . Pitt himself gloried in it : he said in a letter , — ' that nothing of a private nature , since he had been in office , had g iven him so much pleasure , as his bringing Dr . Warburton upon the bench . ' In 1762 , he published a discourse on the Doctrine of Divine Grace , in which the operation of the Holv Sp irit was vindicated from the
insults of infidelity , on the one hand ; and from the abuses of fanaticism , on the other . In 176 5 , he published a new edition of the second part of the Divine Legation , in three volumes ; and as it had now received his last hand , he presented it to his friend , Lord Mansfield . This edition , besides many other improvements with which it was enriched , is further distinguished by a remarkable discourse , printed at the close of the last volume , and entitled ' an Appendix concerning the Book of Job : 1
In the next year , 17 66 , he gave a new and much improved edition of the Alliance ; meaning to leave these two great works as monuments to posterity of his unwearied love of the Christian religion , and for the sake of so dear an interest of the Church of England . With a third volume of sermons , two of which had appeared printed separately some time beforehe closed his literary course ; except
, that he made an effort towards publishing the ninth and last book of the Divine Legation . He was perpetually meditating upon it , yet he had committed very little of it to paper ; his custom being to put down in writing only short notes of what he intended to enlarge upon , and to work them up when he was preparing to send his copy to the press . This , in his best days , was so easy to him , that in
printing some of his elaborate Works , he had not in his hands two sheets together , but sent copy to his printer as fast as it was composed . His memory was so tenacious , that he trusted every thing to it ; or , if he may be said to have kept a common-place book , it was nothing more than a small interleaved pocket-almanack , of about three inches square : in which he inserted now and then a reference
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
He had been made Chaplain to the King the year before ; and upon that promotion the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr . Herring , conferred upon him a doctor ' s degree . Lord Bolingbroke died in 1751 , and his philosophical woiks were published in 1753 . Dr . Warburton had very early penetrated into the views of Lord Bolingbroke ; and , observing some tincture of his principles artfully instilled into the Essay on Man , had incurred his of it
immortal hatred , by making the discovery , and in consequence , by reasoning Mr . Pope out of bis hands . Dr . Warburton attacked the arch-infidel ' s works , in a View of his Philosophy , in Four Letters to a Friend , and in writing it has surpassed himself ; the reasoning and the wit being alike irresistible , the strongest and keenest that can be conceived . Towards the end of the year 1757 , Dr . Warburton was promoted to the Deanery of Bristol ; and in the beginning of the
year 17 60 , by Mr . Allen ' s interest with the Minister , Mr . Pitt , J : e was advanced to the bishoprick of Gloucester . Mr . Pitt himself gloried in it : he said in a letter , — ' that nothing of a private nature , since he had been in office , had g iven him so much pleasure , as his bringing Dr . Warburton upon the bench . ' In 1762 , he published a discourse on the Doctrine of Divine Grace , in which the operation of the Holv Sp irit was vindicated from the
insults of infidelity , on the one hand ; and from the abuses of fanaticism , on the other . In 176 5 , he published a new edition of the second part of the Divine Legation , in three volumes ; and as it had now received his last hand , he presented it to his friend , Lord Mansfield . This edition , besides many other improvements with which it was enriched , is further distinguished by a remarkable discourse , printed at the close of the last volume , and entitled ' an Appendix concerning the Book of Job : 1
In the next year , 17 66 , he gave a new and much improved edition of the Alliance ; meaning to leave these two great works as monuments to posterity of his unwearied love of the Christian religion , and for the sake of so dear an interest of the Church of England . With a third volume of sermons , two of which had appeared printed separately some time beforehe closed his literary course ; except
, that he made an effort towards publishing the ninth and last book of the Divine Legation . He was perpetually meditating upon it , yet he had committed very little of it to paper ; his custom being to put down in writing only short notes of what he intended to enlarge upon , and to work them up when he was preparing to send his copy to the press . This , in his best days , was so easy to him , that in
printing some of his elaborate Works , he had not in his hands two sheets together , but sent copy to his printer as fast as it was composed . His memory was so tenacious , that he trusted every thing to it ; or , if he may be said to have kept a common-place book , it was nothing more than a small interleaved pocket-almanack , of about three inches square : in which he inserted now and then a reference